For about 4 years now, I have grown into the habit of creating bibliographies for all my research interests. In the early days of Guarded Acumen, I hosted a website titled The Guarded Acumen Archives, where I would publicly share fragments of my work-in-progress bibliographies. I had early iterations of my now released Kalam and philosophy of time bibliographies hosted there, alongside a panoply of excerpts from books and articles I kept for reference.
And with Guarded Acumen on Discord, I now regularly share those with people on various servers, including my own.
I have now developed an interest in the Christian debate between universalists, infernalists, and annihilationism about hell and general eschatology. So, naturally, I began working on collecting as many papers I could find on the topic of hell and universalism to bring you my incomplete bibliography on hell and universalism.
If I am missing anything or if you find anything worth correcting, feel to reach out.
• Ani, Emmanuel Ifeanyi. “Considering Escaping Hell.” Religious Studies, 19 Jan. 2022, pp. 1–17., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412521000548.
• Buckareff, Andrei A., and Allen Plug. “Escaping Hell: Divine Motivation and the Problem of Hell.” Religious Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 18 Mar. 2005, pp. 39–54., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504007437.
• Buckareff, Andrei A., and Allen Plug. “Escapism, Religious Luck, and Divine Reasons for Action.” Religious Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, 4 Mar. 2009, pp. 63–72., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412508009797.
• Clark, Kelly James. “God Is Great, God Is Good: Medieval Conceptions of Divine Goodness and the Problem of Hell.” Religious Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, Mar. 2001, pp. 15–31., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500005461.
• Corabi, Joseph. “Hell and Character.” Religious Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, Jun. 2010, pp. 233-244., https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412510000156
• Craig, William Lane. “Talbott’s Universalism Once More.” Religious Studies, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 1993, pp. 497–518., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500022551.
• Craig, William Lane. “Talbott’s Universalism.” Religious Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, Sept. 1991, pp. 297–308., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500020990.
• Craig, William Lane. “‘No Other Name’: A Middle Knowledge Perspective on the Exclusivity of Salvation Through Christ.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 2, 1 Apr. 1989, pp. 172–188., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil19896212.
• Crisp, Oliver. “Augustinian Universalism.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 53, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 127–145., https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024410218667.
• Crisp, Oliver. “Divine Retribution: A Defence.” Sophia, vol. 42, no. 2, Oct. 2003, pp. 35–52., https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02782398.
• Dougherty, Trent. “Hell, Vagueness, and Justice: A Reply to Sider,” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 25, no. 3, Jul. 2008, pp. 322-328., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil200825331
• Ehrlich, Dror. “Some Further Reflections Regarding the Talbott–Crisp Debate on the Augustinian Concept of Everlasting Punishment.” Religious Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 23–40., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412510000089.
• Himma, Kenneth Einar. “Eternally Incorrigible: The Continuing-Sin Response to the Proportionality Problem of Hell.” Religious Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Mar. 2003, pp. 61–78., https://doi.org/10.1017/s003441250200625x.
• Holyer, Robert. “Justice and Mercy: A Reply to Thomas Talbott.” Religious Studies, vol. 30, no. 3, Sept. 1994, pp. 287–294., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500022897.
• Holyer, Robert. “Justice and Mercy: A Reply to Thomas Talbott.” Religious Studies, vol. 30, no. 3, Sept. 1994, pp. 287–294., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500022897.
• Jensen, Paul T. “Intolerable But Moral? Thinking About Hell.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 2, 1 Apr. 1993, pp. 235–241., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil199310221.
• Joaquin, Jeremiah Joven. “Hell, Heaven, Neither, or Both: The Afterlife and Sider’s Puzzle.” Sophia, vol. 58, no. 3, 7 Sept. 2018, pp. 401–408., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-018-0682-5.
• Jordan, Jeff. “The Topography of Divine Love.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 29, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2012, pp. 53–69., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20122913.
• Kershnar, Stephen. “The Injustice of Hell.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 58, no. 2, Oct. 2005, pp. 103–123., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-005-3810-4.
• Knight, Gordon. “Universalism and the Greater Good: A Response to Talbott.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 1, 1997, pp. 98–103., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil199714111.
• Knight, Gordon. “Universalism for Open Theists.” Religious Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, June 2006, pp. 213–223., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412506008298.
• Konieczka, Matthew. “Hell Despite Vagueness: A Response to Sider.” Sophia, vol. 50, no. 1, 11 Aug. 2009, pp. 221–232., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-009-0115-6.
• Kronen, John, and Eric Reitan. “Annihilation or Salvation? A Philosophical Case for Preferring Universalism to Annihilationism.” Religious Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 22 Mar. 2020, pp. 138–161., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412520000165.
• Kronen, John, and Eric Reitan. “Talbott’s Universalism, Divine Justice, and the Atonement.” Religious Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, 11 Sept. 2004, pp. 249–268., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504007048.
• Luck, Morgan. “Escaping Heaven and Hell.” Religious Studies, vol. 52, no. 3, 28 Sept. 2015, pp. 395–402., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412515000451.
• Matheson, Benjamin. “Escaping Heaven.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 75, no. 3, 15 Oct. 2013, pp. 197–206., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-013-9432-3.
• Mbũgua, Karori. “The Problem of Hell Revisited: Towards a Gentler Theology of Hell.” Thought and Practice, vol. 3, no. 2, Dec. 2011, https://doi.org/https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tp/article/view/74877.
• Murray, Michael J. “Three Versions of Universalism.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, 1 Jan. 1999, pp. 55–68., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil19991613.
• Oduor, R MJ. “Eternal Damnation: A Reply to Karori Mbugua’s ‘Gentler Theology of Hell.’” Thought and Practice, vol. 7, no. 2, 8 Oct. 2016, pp. 123–140., https://doi.org/10.4314/tp.v7i2.7.
• Patsalidou, Ioanna-Maria. “Hell: Against Universalism.” University of Glasgow, 24 Oct. 2011, pp. 1–159., https://doi.org/http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/2945.
• R Gillham, Alex. “Threats, Coercion, and Willingness to Damn: Three More Objections against the Unpopulated Hell View.” Forum Philosophicum, vol. 25, no. 2, 29 Mar. 2020, pp. 235–254., https://doi.org/10.35765/forphil.2020.2502.16.
• Reitan, Eric. “Eternal Damnation and Blessed Ignorance: Is the Damnation of Some Incompatible with the Salvation of Any?” Religious Studies, vol. 38, no. 4, 21 Dec. 2002, pp. 429–450., https://doi.org/10.1017/s003441250200611x.
• Reitan, Eric H. “Universalism and Autonomy,” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 2, 1 Apr. 2001, pp. 222-240., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20011825
• Reitan, Eric H. “A Guarantee of Universal Salvation,” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 4, 1 Oct. 2007, pp. 413-432., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20072443
• Seymour, Charles. “A Craigian Theodicy of Hell.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2000, pp. 103–115., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil200017110.
• Sider, Theodore. “Hell and Vagueness.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2002, pp. 58–68., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20021918.
• Talbott, Thomas B. “On the Divine Nature and the Nature of Divine Freedom.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1, 1 Jan. 1988, pp. 3–24., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil1988517.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Craig on the Possibility of Eternal Damnation.” Religious Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, Dec. 1992, pp. 495–510., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500021892.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Freedom, Damnation, and the Power to Sin with Impunity.” Religious Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, Dec. 2001, pp. 417–434., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412501005777.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Misery and Freedom: Reply to Walls.” Religious Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, 21 June 2004, pp. 217–224., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504006924.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Providence, Freedom, and Human Destiny.” Religious Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, June 1990, pp. 227–245., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500020382.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Punishment, Forgiveness, and Divine Justice.” Religious Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, June 1993, pp. 151–168., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500022174.
• Talbott, Thomas. “The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 1, 1 Jan. 1990, pp. 19–42., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil1990711.
• Talbott, Thomas. “The Topography of Divine Love: A Response to Jeff Jordan.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 3, 7 Jan. 2013, pp. 302–316., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil201330328.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Three Pictures of God in Western Theology.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 1 Jan. 1995, pp. 79–94., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil199512120.
• Talbott, Thomas. “Universalism and the Supposed Oddity of Our Earthly Life: Reply to Michael Murray.” Faith and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2001, pp. 102–109., https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil200118116.
• Van Holten, Wilko. “Hell and the Goodness of God.” Religious Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 1 Mar. 1999, pp. 37–55., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412598004697.
• Walls, Jerry L. “A Hell of a Choice: Reply to Talbott.” Religious Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 203–216., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504006912.
• Walls, Jerry L. “A Hell of a Dilemma: Rejoinder to Talbott.” Religious Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, 21 June 2004, pp. 225–227., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412504006936.
• Worsley, David. “(Affective) Union in Hell.” Religious Studies, vol. 55, no. 02, 16 June 2018, pp. 261–278., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412518000641.
